I just purchased PowerDVD V10 (not an upgrade). When viewing fullscreen, the "frame" around the movie and controls (stop, play, etc) still show - how do I get these to hide so full screen is without displaying anything else except the movie?

OS is XP Pro, SP3
Not sure about video stuff, 82845G onboard video. Driver is up to date as far as I can tell. Fullscreen works fine with VLC Media Player.

Single monitor (AOC 32"), these are movies ripped using anydvd and 1click dvd. Again, they work fine with VLC but I can't turn off/hide controls on powerDVD 10 and they do not turn off automagically after a few seconds as would be expected.

I have exactly the same problem playing back ripped dvd's (from HD). I get the window frame around the video, the playback controls plus the Windows taskbar at bottom. No matter how long I wait - it won't switch into proper fullscreen. If i use the ;fullscreen' popup menu option it switches between normal size and maximized window - but with all the other abovementioned garbage).

I'm using Windows 7 x32 - latest drivers and a NVidia 9600GT (All very new hardware). I've included a dxdiag dump if it helps.

Note that fullscreen playback of HD and DVD always worked on all previous versions of PowerDVD (7,8,9 etc).

Can you please advise on what is going on here and if Cyberlink has now officially crippled this function (I saw a lot of people complain about same problem and no reply except for this thread). Obviously if this is intentional you will lose a very large % of your userbase - otherwise I'd make this a very high priority issue to fix.

I'm currently about to uninstall Powerdvd 10 and go back to v9 as this is a complete showstopper for me (and makes this program useless on my HTPC).

Additionally - two other big issues with this software.

1. As per a previous post - it's very important for Media Center users that you enable the function to allow a Harddrive based DVD to be launched by passing a command line param (ie .. ..\powerdvd.exe d:\mydvds\sometitle\video_ts ). This is a major shortcoming of power dvd and the reason many users have resorted to other programs like tmt, vlc etc (pretty much every dvd player software does this except pdvd) - and prevents it being used with all the popular dvd movie library addins.

2. There's no way to launch a bluRay rip from HD either. I can launch the individual MTS files - but this prevents me from using the menu and selecting subtitles/audio tracks. (which makes it effectively useless).

Can you please provide some advice on if there is any intention to fix these major shortcomings of this software?

PowerDVD does not support playback of BD from HDD - there will be no support for such feature

Br
Michael

Hi -

This is on the 2ft mode - the only way to launch a DVD is via selecting the video tab and then clicking play on the VIDEO_TS folder (AFIK : the other modes do not support playback of DVD from the Harddrive - and the DVD Tab only allows you to select a physical dvd/bluray drive - correct me if I am wrong).

Niall

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This may be obvious, and I apologize if it is, but the controls remain when you keep the mouse pointer in the control area in PowerDVD 10. All you need to do is move your mouse pointer outside of the control area and they will disappear after about 3 seconds from the time the mouse stopped moving.

Personally, I like this feature a lot. I hated the fact that PowerDVD 8 would always hide the controls after 3 seconds (unless you were moving the mouse or clicking on a control) because it would sometimes take me longer than 3 seconds before a scene appeared that I wanted to pause and by the time it appeared, the controls had disappeared and I missed my cue.

Keeping the controls visible as long as the mouse pointer is hovering over the control area is a great feature!

The problem occures when you use the "Video" tab to open a DVD file (VIDEO_TS folder) on a hard drive. The playback will actually switch to the "Movie" tab to play the DVD movie but the menus remain, even when the mouse is moved out of the "control area". When viewing avi, wmv, and mpeg type files using the "Video" tab, the menus will disappear. The menus do not disappear when viewing a DVD file from a hard drive.

One good thing - installation of the PowerDVD 10 upgrade did not remove PowerDVD 8 and Version 8 still works as expected.

I was able to repeat the problem you described under limited conditions. As far as I can tell, the problem only happens when you run a DVD "Video_TS" folder as you wrote. In that case, the frame with titlebar and the controls at the bottom of the screen will persist. Curiously so does the Windows taskbar (Windows XP). Yet the Movie/Video/Music tabs at the top will disappear as they should.

With a little experimentation, I was able to discover a work-around to fix this problem. Here's what I did:

1 - With PowerDVD 10 full-screen, use the Video tab to select a "Video_TS" folder and run it by clicking on the Play button [>] at the bottom of the screen.
2 - After the movie starts to play, double-click in the middle of the video image to toggle PowerDVD 10 out of full-screen mode. The video should now be playing in the small default-size window.
3 - Double-click in the middle of the video image one more time to toggle PowerDVD 10 back to full-screen mode and the problem should have gone away. Parking the mouse pointer outside of the control area should now allow the controls to hide as they should.

Note: If you launch a video file directly (a VOB file or any video file such as an MP4 file) then the problem does not occur---everything but the video images will disappear as it should after the mouse pointer is parked outside of the control area.

It's close to 5 weeks now and there's still not been an update or a fix for the problems addressed in this thread - namely fullscreen playback of dvd's from HD WITHOUT the skin/borders (but also other issues raised such as inability to launch HD based DVD from command line/windows explorer).

I've seen several replies from cyberlink on this saying 'problem is being investigated/fixed etc.'.

I was able to repeat the problem you described under limited conditions. As far as I can tell, the problem only happens when you run a DVD "Video_TS" folder as you wrote. In that case, the frame with titlebar and the controls at the bottom of the screen will persist. Curiously so does the Windows taskbar (Windows XP). Yet the Movie/Video/Music tabs at the top will disappear as they should.

With a little experimentation, I was able to discover a work-around to fix this problem. Here's what I did:

1 - With PowerDVD 10 full-screen, use the Video tab to select a "Video_TS" folder and run it by clicking on the Play button [>] at the bottom of the screen.
2 - After the movie starts to play, double-click in the middle of the video image to toggle PowerDVD 10 out of full-screen mode. The video should now be playing in the small default-size window.
3 - Double-click in the middle of the video image one more time to toggle PowerDVD 10 back to full-screen mode and the problem should have gone away. Parking the mouse pointer outside of the control area should now allow the controls to hide as they should.

Note: If you launch a video file directly (a VOB file or any video file such as an MP4 file) then the problem does not occur---everything but the video images will disappear as it should after the mouse pointer is parked outside of the control area.

Kind regards, David

Hello David,

I tried your workaround, thanks. The tabs are disappearing, but the rewind, play forward etc. is still there... Guess the only option is to wait for RD to fix this. It's so annoying I've stopped using the player now..